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Image:Venera2.jpg 300px Venera II probe in museum Image:Venera2-2.jpg 300px Venera-2 3MV-4 No. 4. Category:Spacecraft

... : The Soviet Union launched from Baykonur two interplanetary spacecraft, Venera 15 on June 2 on Venera 16 on June 7. The spacecraft first went into "an intermediate orbit of an artificial ... to land on Venus was Venera 3 , in March 1966; Venera 4 landed gradually and sent data on the planet's atmosphere for 93 minutes. Venera 13 and Venera 14 soft-landed in March 1982 and returned photographs of the landing site. (FBIS, Mosc Dom Tv Svc in Russian, Tass in English, June 2&7/83 ...

Image:Venera3.jpg 300px Venera-3 3MV-3 No. 1. Image:Venera3pennants.jpg 300px Venera-3 pennants sent to Venus Image:Venera3pennants2.jpg 300px Venera-3 pennants sent to Venus Image:Venera3pennants3.jpg 300px Venera-3 pennants sent to Venus Category:Spacecraft

Image:Venera1.jpg 300px Venera 1 probe Image:VeneraPravda.jpg 300px Pravda report on Venera 1 Category:Spacecraft

... unknown to Winkler) in his lifelong rocketry career. A typical thrust was almost five kg (2.2 lb.) for only 0.35 sec. Image:Winkler's_first_rocket_experiments.jpg thumb 200px ... Pirquet's route to the planet Venus was actually carried out by the USSR's ''Venera-1'' when it was launched towards Venus on 12 February 1961---becoming the world's first spacecraft sent to Venus---although communications by Venera with Earth were lost and it probably only flew past Venus rather than landed upon ...

... . Thompson as test pilot. Towed to 13,000-ft. altitude by C-47 aircraft, M-2 glided each time to landing on Rogers Dry Lake bed in a few seconds over ... type enlarged itself by four or five times in the Martian environment. ''(M&R, 9/2/63)'' AFSC announced establishment of field office at NASA Manned Space­craft Center , headed by ... compartment contains environmental life-support system and necessary survival equipment. ''(Cook, Wash. Daily News, 9/2/63)'' Results of Harvard Business School poll of U.S. industrialists on how they viewed ...

... a new technology upon which much of America's future space effort depends . . . ." ''(CR, 12/2/63, 21906 ff.)'' Political Committee of the U.N. General Assembly opened debate on report ... -engine craft designed for short-range and medium-range flights. ''(NIT, 12/3/63)'' December 2-4: Fourth NASA Intercenter Conference on Plasma Physics held at NASA Hq., with participants from ... as from universities and industries. ''(Pro­gram)'' December 1963 December Dec 1 1963 1 Dec 2 1963 2 Dec 3 1963 3 Dec 4 1963 4 Dec 5 1963 5 Dec 6 ...

... because the temperature caused a relay to stick or a component to fail. ''(AP, NYT, 2/3/64)'' Tass announced ELECTRON I and ELECTRON II scientific satellites were continuing their elliptical ... functioning normally and ground stations were receiving scientific data from the satellites. ''(Tass, Krasnaya Zvezda, 2/2/64,1, ATSS-T Trans.)'' 300-ft.-high helium-filled balloon with 550-lb. instrumented ...

... R&D, $3.677 billion; con­struction of facilities, $45 million; and administrative operations, $648.2 million. ''(NASA LAR VII/8)'' S-II 2nd stage for fifth Apollo Saturn V mission ... and poverty-stricken." ''(NASA Release 68-14; WS Release 68-1; India News, 2/2/68, 4; LA Times, 2/3/68; B Sun, 6/30/68)'' Cornell Univ.'s association with Cornell ... projects and Univ.'s expanding program of international studies. ''(Science, 2/2/68, 515)'' February 1968 February Feb 1 1968 1 Feb 2 1968 2 Feb 3 1968 3 Feb 4 1968 4 Feb ...

... requested $4.37 billion. House cut $142.4 million from Apollo Applications program-leaving $252.2 million, $186.4 million less than NASA had requested for orbiting workshop and lunar exploration ... to satellite earth station at Brews­ter Flat, Wash. Facility functioned through Intelsat-II F-2 at 22,300- mi altitude over. Pacific. ''(ComSatCorp Release 68-22)'' NASA Associate Administrator for ...

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